[FFmpeg-user] Best method to encode with video priority

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2018-12-10 12:18 GMT+01:00, Gabriele Greco <gabrielegreco at gmail.com>:
> I guys,
>
> I was wandering what are the correct ffmpeg options to encode a video
> giving priority to video (i.e. never dropping a frame) in case of damaged
> files with missing video frames and/or missing audio blocks.
>
> Specifically I'd like to:
>
> - add silence if there are video frames with timestamp for which there is
> no audio

-async 1 (the console output explains the option)

> - replicate frames if there is an audio block with no matching video frames.

-vsync cfr may be what you want but this description doesn't sound
correct.

> Looking at the ffmpeg documentation it seems that: -vsync and -async are
> the options I need to work with to achieve this.
>
> So I suppose I have to add to my encoding string:
>
> -vsync 1

> ... I read a few stack overflow post suggesting also to use -async 1, but I
> read in the documentation that it's a deprecated option and I fear to have
> A/V sync problems with it since it will check only timestamp at the
> beginning

That sound's wrong.

Carl Eugen